Radio Times, September 19th, 1924. B _ THE STORY OF THE BESSES 0° TH BARN BAND. vor Cheeeree nape i Eouvaurch” : [ez-+ rh Mee LEEoe: f§taceoe ALL SS he BS ae Pucari SAANCAATEST a Sarribiened KOTPeala y DIOTIMES, : i LOA =e, BQVANEMOUTH 5 fats ersTPE Lat, mete eer _ a + pe frm 4 4 1 lr L 2 Fy 1 THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE B. B.C ee ES eeee kieghaterek ah Che ] _Vol. 4. No. 52. GAG, at o erp per. _ EVERY FRIDAY. Two Pence. SS OFFICIAL Radio and the Poets’Songs. Pe ORAM MES By EDWARD SHANKS. [The writer of this article is one of the most for what ia poten- Promising of our younger poets. Among ‘hishis tially fruitfol in the THE BRITISH better khown works are “‘ Queen of China, newthing imetead of “The Island of Youth.”| opposing to it the BROADCASTING 7 all new inventions, cepecially to thoge obviewa negative of a populsrizing tendency, there i arcumenta: aml we COMPANY. likely to be at first a certain amount of opposi- give ourselves some chance of helping on aa tion from cultured persona, not always apparently of an unreasonable nature. No doubt, the such new mod pro For the Week PEER etholara of the early Renaissance and the gressive tendencies SUNDAY, September 21st. acatiornd Byzantines, in whoes handa alone 1s if may oontain, ae i r rested the treasura of Greek literature, looked askance at the new-fangled art of printing and Since broadcasting LONDON CARDIFF were able to prodace excellent arguments for has been blessed by ABERDEEN GLASGOW their doubts, Printing would throw out of the Poet Laureate aa a probable means of BIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER work the soribes,.monsstic and otherwie, who had devotelifetimes to the perfection of their improving thea pro- Mr. EDWARD SHANKS. BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE calligraphy. It would throw the great master- nunciation of Eng- BELFAST pieces of antiquity into the handa of those not lish throughout the country, it can: be no qualifed to understand them. longer said that the cultured regard this new SHEFFIELD (Reliry) Py * * ® invention with contempt aa a vulgar thing. These arguments are not without a certain Broadcasting may very likely prove a powerful PLYMOUTH (Relay) eore of good sense; but the expenence of instrument of culture and civilization in other EDINBURGH (Relay) cmnturiea, learning from developments not then directions than ee and it is with the bytes, has “bow that. there were arguments possibilities of one of these that I propose LIVERPOOL (Relay) (even if they were unpoken and hardly realised) here to deal. ** &. LEEDS—BRADFORD(Relay) on the other side of infinitely greater im- HULL (Relay) portance. Learning and literature have not Now it is an elementary fact (and. therefore suffered, but have rather much profited, from easy to overlook) that the written word is only NOTTINGHAM (Relay) the invention of printing. Perhaps it wae not a symbolic representation of the sounds that ee possible for the acutest intelligence at that issue from our mouths, Like all human inven- SPECIAL CONTENTS : time to foresee how this profit would «accrue. tions, writing has taken on an independent life A GOOD FAIRY IN MEAN STREETS. But there was a hoge instinctive force on the of ite own and has itself exercised and extended By Harold Begbie. aide of the new art, and to-day we can realine the powers of the human mind. The beginnings how right that inatinet was, of literature—which is, in this connection, a MY FAVOURITE RADIO SONG, ** ** misleading word, but one for which there is no By Robert Radford. Tt behooves ne, then, when a new invention aubstitute—were in ihe recitations of the tribal aweepe rapidly across the world not to condemn bards, and these had nothing whatever to do “ FAUST.” THE STORY OF GOUNOD'S it Aa vulgar, bot. to. ask ourselves what secda with pen and paper, They were written down of knowledge and culture may be contained in ata later date, and all poetry ever since, of OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. it. Perhaps those we may discern miy not be course, has been inflaeneed by the possibility of ST. of cesential importance ; for things of this sort ite being written down. But it would be abeurd THE CHILDREN'S CORNER. are larger than the grasp of the mind and evade to prebend that soch works as Gibban’s “ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" or the novels —a the most sy mipathetic and. carcial pucsaing. LISTENERS' LETTERS. Bot we stand ino bebtter attitude if we Jock (Cortiniid ovrlsaf in exumn 3.) ror za 1 ~-- RADIO TIMES -— [Sere unEen Lore, Lye My Favourite Radio Song. © Reilio si the Poets’ Soman. if sehen ced fron ih pra iene pag =} By Robert Radford, the Famous Bass. of Geange Meredith retain any traces of the mothed of oral revitation, 'Theae compositions MI" earliest experience coect bet thie air plest means (tt 1 seored for were rendered possible by the invention of the L of broadeasting was strings ancl Aute only), it has a rolling gambolling art of writing, more or leas incidental rhythmic ecstasy, which seems cxpctly to - = = = and impersonal, became depict the love raptures of the giant Polyphemus. Nevertheless, poetey has never quite escaped at the time ID wae one of Tt is, moresver, one of the few songs-in which from its origins. The earliest literature of all the performers ini an the basa voice is employed in ite natural colour, nations is oon pom! in Verse, ro deulh. beeen opera at Covent Garden. and i# an extraordinary cxample of Handel's vere ia easier. for the reciter to memorize, Arad Twas nol unaware, how- peers, poetry, being an clemental thing, drawing ita ever, of the fact that I To descend from the tibline to the rilicnious, material mone from emotion and inatinet than efald be heard. hy an CNC EYALBay! Of this sone that thereby hanes a from intellect and know ledge, i homevest hic in ge hudienss o thousaidfold fale.” JA Sompositor, whe himself mist have back to ie origins. Thee poet cannot be qnite more vast than the one I had o touch of genius, printed the tithe of this content with being mentally read: he must saw in the auciteriom, aong, In & programme of mine; as “ O Ruddier be sung or spoken aloud if his full meaning i to Mr. ROBSRT RADFOND Infact. thos *" awareness” thon the (lerney ! be Unters toed, if amply shown by a Py + ss & The Effect of Broadcasting on Music. littie joke [ played, after the manner of George how the poet-feck a lack of that immediate the Fourth’s wager that he would aay “ Baa, baa, Tt will be a most intriguing and interesting thing to note the effect of broadeaatigg on the contact with, and reaponéefrom, his fellow- beings black sheep” in the middle of the King's which was the privilegeof his primitive exemplars, epeech | art of composition, It is always wise to obey That this is #0 18 proved, 1 think, by mony A close personal friend, living at St. Annes Mark Twain's injunction, anil “never to recent attempts to institute public readings. or on-the-Sea, near Blackpool, hall warned me prophesy till you knew; but one cannot help noticing that the tende‘ney of modern miMsto is regitals of portry. that he wos going to listen on the occasion * tt of a certain performance of Fost at Covent All towards rhythmic varieties, however com- Garden, which was to be broadcast throughout Picated- the harmomes. The human ear seca There j¢ ako another and a very important the Britiah Isles. The moment 0 had finshed capable of absorbing, even bee TUL gecustomedt side to the question. The public of today BINT “The Calf of Gold.” J walked nearer to ta, chaonance aod discord, but demanils pulse knows little and cares littl about its poeta the microphone and mormured: “ Hullo, of rhythm, and broadcasting will undowbtedly because it comes at them only through the un- emphasise thie tendency, and give. nebulous, (harke £"" Ana tie heard itt Perhape the rest satisfactory medium of the printed page. Now of the world thought theae interpolated words, intellectual music tess chance than ever. Aid, there ia one remarkable fact which I have having no apparent connection with anything, After all, whe ever wanted imbellectual mimic? obeerved again and acuin, A poot may be, and were fk stndl from Mars ! Dam assured that the very lowest notes in the often is, a bad reader; but he always knows hase voice are heard over the wireless diktinet ly, better than anvone che how his work ought The Ordeal in the Shidia. and: that ia more than tan be said? of min to be reac! ane, when he deed pead at, will make boncert halls: Thr basa vocalist can this take 1 did not fuid my first studio easion nearly of it Something quite different from, and. more heart, and find hes place in the new and fascinat- ao casy: Tt wae rather a nerve-racking affair. significant than, what is made by any person In Schenne, Moreover, he new! pol wear «a infact: Although | had been wanted mhout the who hes not learnt from Lin JA goo part of beard, or carry © spear or staff, as he mostly effect of the padding and drapery on the sound the metniag of poetry is in ite sound and, in does in opera—for which relief much thanks ! of onesonwnreice, yot [was startled. | thought the first place, only the poet knows. precisely [ pometinies wonder what my ele friend Hana my #eice had vanished.